Alot of people over at vbulletin.nl wouldn't release their 're-releasers' hacks if they were at vbulletin.org.

Look at this post from mark:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=109
and this thread:
http://www.vbulletin.nl/community/showthread.php?t=787

I don't know if that user asked mark for permission, if it is then ok.

Faranth, what happens if vb3 hacking is allowed here? Do we get to see 2 'top poster on forumhome' hacks on vbulletin.org? One from mine (the original) and one from assassingod. I think that we get much more '2 releases of the same hack' here at vbulletin.org once vb3 hacking is allowed.

Don't get me wrong, i don't blame assassingod or any other hacker outside of vbulletin.org. It's the system, no vb3 hacking allowed here on vbulletin.org then there should be no vb3 hacking allowed elsewhere. This is the official place to hack vbulletin and not vbulletin.nl or any other site that allows vb3 hacking!

vBulletintemplates dose not allow hacking, we deal with the templates only. However some templates like phpinclude allow us to add stuff to the source code. Some use this method so they arent stuck re-hacking file x for one line of code every upgrade.

If you feel something of yours was released at vBt without your perrmission then contact the member that posted the modification, if that dosent get you anywhere contact one of the staff members and we will look at the problem. :)

I guess you can see Lesane's point. But im sure Assassingod meant no disrespect from releasing that over at vbulletintemplates.com.

Maybe if he made it better or different to Lesane's version it would be a different story.Who knows :p

I can see his point but it dosent take a IQ of a millon to call the query_frist function, write some SQL, set a var, and output it in html.

If someone copied his store hack and made it work in phpinclude it would be removed as soon as it was seen, not only because it is lesanes code. But also there is no reason to add that much overhead to vBulletin in the frist place, the phpinclude template can kill your board if you dont work with it correctly. Hacking will always be better for most things.

True i guess the set back of releases of vB3 hacks here until RC1 is effecting more people in more ways now :(

Yeah right, is coke going to sue pepsi (Or vise versa) because they have the same idea? They both have different ingredients.

Is vBulletin going to be sued because they started forum software, and got the idea from UBB to start one?


I don't think so, your point is moot.

This has been discussed by the staff at vB.org. We came to the conclusion that if people go round re-releasing others code just ported to vB3 then it won't be allowed. We'd like to give the original authors first preference on re-releasing their code but we can't patent ideas when the code has been re-written :)

If it is copied code with only minor changes to suit the new needs of the user, then it is still illegal.

Well all you have to do is look at the bottom of vb.org

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My point exactly!

I would definatly cause a comotion if someone release one of my hacks for vb3 ..... that is sooooooo wrong!

P.S. I have added a copyright reminder to the first post of all my vb2 hacks here on vb.org just to remind any perspective thieves ;)